This week we pair in the best way: two people we admire and think would like each other! 

 

Ahsan Butt is a writer, whose short fiction and essays have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Pacifica Literary Review, The Offing, The James Franco Review, and more. He loves to read and finds writing mostly excruciating. His interests are confusingly scattered and if looked at closely, may reveal some pattern he's not yet ready to see. Among his favorites: author interviews, essays on Twin Peaks, apocalyptic anxiety, Batman (but not all Batman), and horror (but not most horror). He was born in Toronto, is of Pakistani descent, and currently lives in Los Angeles, where he and his wife are currently raising a terrified cat. Twitter: @ahsanb_

 

Emily Schwartz is a playwright who has written many strange, macabre yet musical things mostly in Chicago with her company The Strange Tree Group. Currently she is work-shopping a musical about Typhoid Mary and writing her first novel (it's a ghost story).  Instagram: @emilywritesplays / website: http://www.strangetree.org/ for information on past productions.

 

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